• @[email protected]English
    16•8 days ago

    5, [tied: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7], 6, 8

    Sweet potato fries are fucking amazing when they’re done right. Usually they’re overly mushy which I think is why they get so much hate, but they’re top tier when the cook knows what they’re doing.

    • @[email protected]
      4•7 days ago

      Sweet Potato fries turn out way better than regular potato in an air fryer if you’re buying frozen ones to make at home.

      I bought a spice grinder and made a spice mix for my sweet potato fries. Its a mix of salt, old bay, montreal steak seasoning and dried chilli flakes and its awesome.

      • scytale
        2•7 days ago

        Hard agree. The only issue is frozen sweet potato fries are way more expensive than regular. I try to make my own at home but can’t get the same crispness in the air fryer.

  • @[email protected]
    16•8 days ago

    … are the wedges the only non fried food in this picture?

    How about boiling them tatoes?

    Or simply pan fry them with some butter?

    Anyways; 1. Wedges, 2. Waffles, 3. Shoestring with surprise sweet potatoes > The rest.

    • @[email protected]
      10•7 days ago

      Wedges are fried often times. At our nation-wide supermarket for example, at the ready-made counter, wedges are definitely fried. Same with the mom and pop chicken shop down the street.

    • @[email protected]
      2•7 days ago

      I think the OP was originally about fried preparation of potatoes. Wedges at least in North America are usually fried, I think the only non-fried ones I’ve seen are in the UK.

      Also if we’re talking about the best preparation of potatoes in general, it’s mashed and there’s no argument there.

    • @[email protected]
      2•8 days ago

      If we’re talking about expanding to other potatoe-preparations, we might as well include a simple baked potatoe.

      And, as a Bavarian, I cannot omit the glorious Knödel (in all it’s potato-based variations).

      • @[email protected]
        1•7 days ago

        Preparation is important.

        Air fryer makes sweet potato move up the list, regular oven makes tots go up. Traditional deep fried makes them go down and brings the potato items up.

  • hopesdead
    9•6 days ago

    Okay, two of them aren’t even the same vegetable.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•8 days ago

    2, 3, 4, 6, 1, 7, 5.

    Onion rings are either at the top or bottom of the list depending on the batch.

  • JakoJakoJako13English
    11•7 days ago

    1. Tater tot: A good tater tot is like butter. Pure salt and crunch then melt in your mouth deliciousness.

    2. Onion Rings: Good onion rings is technically better than tater tots, but the spectrum of bad to good onion rings is very wide.

    3. Curly Fries: Curly Fries are hard to fuck up. I don’t even think I’ve had a variation of curly fries. They’re all the same to me, but they’re so good.

    4. Wedges: Wedges have a smaller spectrum than onion rings, but the ceiling is lower and they’re hard to rank better than the ones ahead of them.

    5. Shoestring: McDonalds

    6. ZigZag: These can range from heavenly to straight fucking trash. Unfortunately they’re too easy to turn into straight fucking trash. By that I mean you have to put more work into them to make them good as opposed to just salt and oven/fried. Might as well just try to fry some snow at that point.

    7. Sweet Potato: I’ve had good sweet potato fries but I rarely get good sweet potato fries.

    8. Waffle: I don’t get these. They’re ass. The only place that makes them kinda tolerable is Chik-Fila, but even then they’re still ass to me. Can’t even make them good at home without drowning them in salt and ketchup. I can slice up a potato and chuck them in the oven and get better results most of the time.

    Edit for formatting. Apparently piefed, doesn’t honor your numbering and turns it into 1, 2, 3, etc even if you go 8, 12, 3.

    • @[email protected]
      1•7 days ago

      I nearly dismissed your review until you qualified your assessment of onion rings. I have transposed the order on those first two myself

      • JakoJakoJako13English
        1•7 days ago

        They’re close. I might give another answer depending on the day. The rest of the order I stand by.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•8 days ago
    • 3 (tots)
    • 2 (curly)
    • 6 (zigzag crinkle cut)
    • 4 (waffle)
    • 7 (wedges Jo-Jo’s)
    • 5 (sweet potato)
    • 8 (onion rings) - tied with sweet potatoes; they’re both lost and in the wrong part of town
    • 1 (shoestring) - potato chip sticks with more steps

    Missing: coniques.

  • Camelbeard
    16•7 days ago

    This

    With Belgian mayonaise!

    And I’m Dutch so I’m not even biased.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•7 days ago

    My only strong opinion on the whole chart is that crinkle cut fries are the worst thing shown and thus take last place no matter what

  • @[email protected]
    2•5 days ago
    • Wedges
    • Curly
    • Zigzag
    • Shoestring
    • Waffle
    • Tots
    • Sweet Potato (not a potato but closer than an onion)
    • Onion Rings (not a potato, would be 3 otherwise)
  • Dämnyz
    51•7 days ago

    Posting such a controversial question and putting in onion rings on this list is bordering on rage bait

    Edit: I can’t type